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wut? everyone in China already use Baike instead of Wikipedia, nobody really understand why they are making another website
by Markoff 9y ago
wut? everyone in China already use Baike instead of Wikipedia, nobody really understand why they are making another website
- runn1ng 9y agoTo compare Chinese Wikipedia has 940,000 articles, baike has 6 million articles.
- dmix 9y agoWikipedia editors are pretty strict about what gets to remain a page. Everyone knows they delete articles unless it has lots of sources and public interest. With 6x the articles on baike I can't imagine that there is that level of quality control. Unless there are 6x as many things worth documenting in China vs rest of the world. An interesting statistic none-the-less.
- chucksmash 9y agoEnglish Wikipedia has 5.4 million articles. I imagine many of them would be notable in Chinese too.
- ttflee 9y agoBaidu Baike has not changed its portrait of bad quality/credibility issue/plagiarism from my memory.
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- ue_ 9y agoThat doesn't surprise me; in Japan there are various Japanese wiki sites, usually with less information than even the Japanese versions of Wikipedia, but still with more articles. Usually they even have comment sections below the articles, which can become quite toxic, at least on certain articles.
- lactau 9y agoBecause it is a for-profit website with strict content re-use policy?
- lactau 9y agoBecause it is a for-profit website with strict content re-use policy?